Teaching Myself To See
- Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2021
- 1 electronic resource (136 p.)
Open Access
Teaching Myself to See deals with Tito's 2019;s struggles to participate in a world full of visual details. As a person with autism, Tito is visually selective, processing the myriad of details seeping in through the eye rather than the whole. Tracing Tito's 2019;s experiences to learn to see in his own, hyper-visual way, through art, through magazines, through everyday life, Teaching Myself to See is a work of auto-anthropology, capturing in words, sentences, paragraphs, poems, a way of seeing that might seem so bewildering that doctors and psychologists told his mother he wouldn's 2019;t be able to think. This book proves otherwise. By teaching us to look through his eyes, Tito shows us the miracle and immense complexity of sight, of neuro-atypicals and neuro-typicals alike.